Re: ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Apr 9, 2010, at 7:30 AM, todd glassey wrote:

> On 4/8/2010 10:32 AM, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> > On 07 Apr 2010 18:40, N. Yaakov Ziskind wrote:
> > > I don't think the issue is *money* (at least the big issue; money is
> > > *always* an issue), but rather the all-of-sudden jump from being
> > > unregulated to regulated, whatever that means.
> >
> > ARIN is not a regulator.  The "jump" is from not paying for services
> > that you have no contract for to paying for services that you do have a
> > contract for.
>
> BULL SH*T, ARIN makes determinations as to how many IP addresses it will
> issue and in that sense it is exactly a regulator.
No, ARIN is not a regulator.  Regulators have guns or access to people with
guns to enforce the regulations that they enact. ARIN has no such power.

The FCC is a regulator.  The California PUC is a regulator. ARIN is not
a regulator.

Owen